Marc Bain

Nobody knows what the future holds, but that has never stopped anyone trying to predict it. It’s a game countless US retailers are engaged in right now, while their industry shudders under the pressures of e-commerce, an overabundance of brick-and-mortar stores, and changing consumer spending habits. The ongoing “retail apocalypse“ is forcing them to question the value of their physical stores.

Take a quick glance across the digital landscape and you’ll see brands trying just about everything they can think of to connect with customers digitally. There are dedicated mobile apps, chatbots, virtual-reality experiences, all sorts of connected devices, and more.

The fashion industry represents a huge chunk of New York City’s economy. It generates about $11 billion in wages and employs roughly 6% of the city’s workforce. More than 900 fashion companies have their headquarters in New York. Culturally, the city is the epicenter of US fashion, and one of the top fashion capitals in the world.

American Apparel built its image as a purveyor of casual basics on two foundations: its famously sexy, sometimes lurid advertising; and a commitment to making all its product sweatshop-free in the US.

Adidas has unveiled what it presented as a giant leap forward in the way sneakers are made.

Zara and H&M are the world’s two largest fashion retailers. Not by coincidence, they’re also the pioneers of fast fashion. Zara is able to take a coat from design to the sales floor in 25 days (paywall), and it can replenish items even more quickly.

One of the futuristic promises of 3D printing in fashion was that one day the technology would allow you to walk into a store, give the staff your measurements, and walk out with a garment made on the spot, just for you.

Jenna Lyons, president, creative director, and the de facto face of the J.Crew clothing brand, is parting ways with the company after 26 years.

Adidas’ Superstar sneaker couldn’t be more aptly named right now. According to research firm NPD Group, the simple, shell-toed retro style was the best seller by dollar sales last year in the US, the world’s largest sneaker market.

For some people, getting dressed in the morning is a joy. Good for them.

Legion, FX’s mind-bending adaptation of the Marvel comic about a mentally unstable superhero, is packed with trippy pleasures. The storytelling is fragmented, more like one of David Lynch’s hallucinatory worlds than any genre tale about mutants with superpowers you’ve ever seen. Visually, it goes big and aims for the surreal, packing in odd colors and disorienting shots as it depicts reality through the unsound mind of its protagonist, David Haller (Dan Stevens).

The real Russian spy story that inspired The Americans, FX’s acclaimed drama about Russian sleeper agents living, working, and raising a family in the US, didn’t actually take place during the Cold War. That saga unfolded decades later. But in 2013, when Joe Weisberg created the show, he thought American audiences no longer considered relations with Russia to be tense, so he set it at the time when US-Russia tension was at its peak, in the early 1980s.

One of the main pillars propping up the nearly $100 billion business of Nike—the world’s largest sneaker company and arguably its most valuable footwear and apparel brand—is air.

A US clothing retailer that’s actually doing well feels like an anomaly these days. Labels such as the Limited, American Apparel, and Abercrombie & Fitch are shuttering locations across the country, as are department stores such as Macy’s. ”The retail apocalypse has officially descended on America,” Business Insider declared, pointing out that more than 3,500 retail stores, many of which sell clothes, are expected to close within the next few months.

If the world’s big sportswear brands could invent a country with just the right mix of ingredients to fuel their businesses for years to come, it would look a lot like present-day China.

One side effect of globalization is that it’s become extremely difficult to know exactly what is happening in companies’ supply chains. A diffuse network of factories spread across several countries halfway around the world is hard to monitor, even for committed watchdogs.

Canada Goose, maker of pricey, expedition-ready parkas that double as status symbols in cities all over North America, is set to go public on March 16, in hopes of raising as much as $240 million.

In the Trump family’s first television interview after Donald Trump won election as US president, daughter Ivanka Trump appeared wearing a bracelet from her jewelry line. It was a gold bangle trimmed in diamonds and, according to the ethically questionable “style alert” her brand sent out, it retailed for $10,800.

Across the US, university students, office betting pools, and of course the athletes themselves have a lot invested in the outcome of the “March Madness” college basketball tournament, but they’re not the only ones.

H&M, which made its billions selling trendy, inexpensive fashion, is throwing its weight behind a cause you might not expect. It wants businesses and governments to stop paying people in cash, and switch instead to paying them digitally, through forms such as mobile money or digital transfers into bank accounts.

It’s not a good sign for retail when a top executive in the industry compares things to the 2008 housing-market collapse that plunged the US economy into a deep recession.

“We are not a fashion company,” said Adidas CEO Kasper Rorsted on the company’s 2016 earnings brief today. “Of course we like to have fashionable products, but we are a sports company.”

Nike has announced the launch of a new and highly anticipated product, and it isn’t a sneaker.

Space is on a lot of minds right now. It seems every other Hollywood blockbuster these days is about interplanetary travel, while the ultra-rich are booking their first passages on rides around the moon, courtesy of Elon Musk’s SpaceX.